The Boston Marathon bomber’s lawyers urged a federal court to overturn their client’s death sentence, arguing Thursday that intense media coverage and signs of juror bias led to an unfair trial. The three-judge panel didn’t render a decision after hearing from both sides for about an hour each.  Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who was convicted of all 30 charges against him,...

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s attorneys say he did not get a fair trial for the deadly Boston Marathon bombing and subsequent shootout.

Attorneys for convicted Boston Marathon bomber, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, appeared before a federal judge Thursday to plead for a new trial for their client.

Attorneys for convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will appear before a federal judge to plead for a new trial and to have their client’s death sentence overturned.

Attorneys trying to overturn the death sentence of convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev say in a new court filing that the 2013 explosions so traumatized the region that it was impossible to get an impartial jury.

A federal court will hear arguments in the Boston Marathon bomber’s death sentence appeal. A federal judge said Tuesday that oral arguments will take place Dec. 12. Each side will be given an hour to make its case. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was convicted and sentenced to death in 2015 for carrying out the April 15, 2013, attack with his older brother,...

A judge has denied a request from lawyers for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to make public parts of written questionnaires completed by prospective jurors in his 2015 trial. U.S. District Judge George O’Toole on Thursday rejected their bid to partially unseal 1,355 questionnaires completed by those who were not seated as jurors in Tsnarnaev’s case.

A new playground in Boston has been dedicated in memory of a city police officer who died in 2014 from injuries suffered during the gunfight with the Boston Marathon bombers.

Dias Kadyrbayev, a college friend of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, has been released from prison and sent to immigration officials, who are expected to deport him to Kazakhstan.

Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s legal team has filed a motion revealing a strategy for his appeal of the death penalty.

Appeals lawyers for convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are asking authorities for the recordings of interviews with a suspect in a triple-homicide in Massachusetts who was shot in 2013 during a confrontation with an FBI agent.

Boston Police Commissioner William Evans often travels the Boston Marathon route from Hopkinton to Boylston Street, reflecting on the moments leading up to the 2013 bombings.

A lawyer for the widow of one of the Boston Marathon bombers says the new Mark Wahlberg film “Patriots Day” is unfair because it suggests she knew something was up before the attack and then didn’t cooperate with the investigation afterward.

First, the jury was shown large, vibrant pictures of the four people killed in the Boston Marathon bombing and its aftermath. Then prosecutors pulled out the photo they saved for last: Tsarnaev giving the finger to the security camera in his jail cell.

Court documents unsealed Monday reveal that Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev did not expect to survive the manhunt that resulted in his eventual capture.

Necn’s Alysha Palumbo and Daily Beast reporter Susan Zalkind joined necn to discuss Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s family testifying for the defense in his death penalty trial.

Defense lawyers for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are trying to postpone his upcoming trial.